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Tim McNamara wrote:

> I built Emacs 21.3.50.1 from CVS on OS X 10.1.5,
[...]
> 1.  The Emacs splash screen seems to be missing (I have a different
>     build obtained through the Fink Project which does present the
>     splash screen, v. 21.2.something)

By "splash screen", do you mean the fancy splash screen (the one with
the picture of a gnu, etc)? Recent CVS versions only show this if they
think the initial frame is big enough. Try starting Emacs with a
larger frame than usual (using --geometry), as well as with -q and
--no-site-file.